Validación del Cuestionario de evaluación de la calidad de cursos virtuales adaptado a MOOC

Los Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) son una modalidad de formación virtual que está ya presente en el panorama educativo actual y que responde a una concepción determinada de e-learning. Las universidades están integrando como parte de su oferta formativa este tipo de formación o, al menos, se está debatiendo si se integra o no. Ante esto, se hace necesario calibrar cuáles deben ser sus características con el fin de configurar un tipo de formación virtual de calidad. Se considera que son necesarios instrumentos que avalen la calidad de los MOOC desde diferentes perspectivas, en este caso la pedagógica, ya que de ello dependerá el éxito y la consolidación de este tipo de e-learning. El objetivo del presente estudio ha sido, pues, validar un cuestionario para la evaluación pedagógica de los MOOC adaptando el cuestionario de evaluación de cursos virtuales (Arias, 2007). Se ha analizado la validez y fiabilidad de dicho cuestionario a través de un análisis factorial de componentes principales con rotación Varimax. Se concluye que bastaría con introducir adaptaciones en la relación de dimensiones propuestas en este cuestionario que tuviera en cuenta las especificidades de los MOOC, ya que estos no pueden analizarse única y exclusivamente desde la óptica general del e-learning anterior a los MOOC. Así, las dimensiones en las cuales se basa dicho cuestionario son: 1) la calidad de la comunicación y los elementos multimedia de los cursos masivos en línea; 2) la coherencia curricular de los cursos y el grado de adaptación al usuario y 3) la calidad de su planificación didáctica.

Special Education and the Risk of Becoming Less Educated in Germany and the United States. CES Germany & Europe Working Papers, No. 05.1, 13 December, 2004

Over the twentieth century, a growing group of students has been transferred into considerably expanded special education systems. These programs serve children with diagnosed impairments and disabilities and students with a variety of learning difficulties. Children and youth “with special educational needs” constitute a heterogeneous group with social, ethnic, linguistic, and physical disadvantages. An increasingly large percentage of those students at risk of leaving school without credentials participate in special education, a highly legitimated low status (and stigmatizing) school form. While most countries commit themselves to school integration or inclusive education to replace segregated schools and separate classes, cross-national and regional comparisons of special education’s diverse student bodies show considerable disparities in their (1) rates of classification, (2) provided learning opportunities, and (3) educational attainments. Analyzing special education demographics and organizational structures indicates which children and youth are most likely to grow up less educated and how educational systems distribute educational success and failure. Findings from a German-American comparison show that which students bear the greatest risk of becoming less educated depends largely on definitions of “special educational needs” and the institutionalization of special education systems.

Women's Physical Education

Black & Black, architects. Dedicated April 17, 1954 and named after Dr. Margaret Bell, chairman of the Program of Physical Education for Women. On verso: H.O. (Fritz) Crisler speaking at ground breaking for women's swimming pool unit

Advances in instructional technology /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Quarterly journal of speech education : the official organ of the National Association of Teachers of Speech.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report /

Public Act 97-0305 amends the Transitional Bilingual Education Article of the School Code to provide that, by no later than December 1, 2011, the BAC shall submit a report to the State Superintendent of Education, the Governor, and the General Assembly addressing, at a minimum, (1) whether and how the 20 child per attendance center minimum should be modified (2) whether and how educator certification requirements in Article 14C of the School Code and applicable State Board of Education rules should be modified; (3) whether and how bilingual education requirements in Article 14C of the School Code and applicable State Board of Education rules should be modified to address differences between elementary and secondary schools; and (4) whether and how to allow school districts to administer alternative bilingual education programs instead of transitional education programs.

Rural health : selected annotated references, January 1953 to June 1960 /

"May 1961."

Courses in agriculture on the home project basis ...

At head of title: State board of education.

Annual report of the Board of Education for the school year ending ...

Description based on: 33rd (1868/1869).

Annual report of the Board of Education, for the school year ending ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Bulletin

Successively Issued by: State Board of Education

Annual report of the Board of Education of District No. 1, Arapahoe County, Colo.

Latest issue consulted: 22nd (1895/1896).

Annual report of the Board of Education of the City of St. Louis, Mo., for the year ending June 30 ...

Latest issue consulted: 89th (1943).

Proceedings

1973 not published

Catalogues, courses of study, reports and similar publications.

Catalogue of the officers, faculty and students for the academic year 1859-60 / Ypsilanti Union School -- Biennial catalogue and circular of the officers, teachers and pupils of the Ypsilanti Union Seminary : together with the courses of study, rules and regulations for the school year 1868-69 -- Union Lyceum, public, Ypsilanti Seminary, Saturday eve., Feb. 26, '70 [program] : order of exercises -- Ninth annual commencement of the Ypsilanti Union Seminary, Friday evening, June 24, 1870 -- Circular containing organization, courses of study and rules and regulations of the public schools of Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1885 -- Circular of the Ypsilanti high school for the academic year 1885-86 -- Annual report and circular containing courses of study of the public schools of Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1892 -- Announcement, Ypsilanti public schools, 1892-93 -- Circular of information, August, 1895 / Ypsilanti High School -- Catalog of the officers, instructors, and students of the Ypsilanti High School for the school year 1898-99 -- Catalog of the officers, instructors, and students of the Ypsilanti High School, for the school year 1899-1900 -- Catalog of the officers, teachers, and students of the Ypsilanti High School for the school year 1900-1901 -- Commemoration exercises celebrating the close of the nineteenth century high school hall, Thursday evening, Dec. 20, 1900 / Ypsilanti High School -- Annual report of the Superintendent of the public schools of Ypsilanti, Michigan for the school year 1908-1909 -- The public schools, Ypsilanti, Michigan : course of study, rules and regulations, reports for 1910-11 and general information -- Annual catalogue, 1911-12 / high school, Ypsilanti, Michigan.